Delaware heads toward the final moves in creating its 2024 budget, which starts July 1, with a projected $963.5 surplus. It will be the third straight year in a row of extraordinary revenues that hit right at $1 billion, and a turbulent economy it’s expected to be the last for a while to reach that stratospheric height. Revenue estimates rose …
Twenty-nine Delaware organizations, mostly community centers involved in work with families, children and healthcare, will get a share of $65.9 million of federal money, politicians announced Monday. The money being split comes from the US Department of the Treasury’s Capital Investment Fund, which has been used to fund broadband and community programs nationwide using money from the American Rescue Plan. …
Two decades ago, a group of Delaware educators, businessmen and politicians founded a biosciences institute to help the state push into that sector of the economy. Gov. John Carney told the 300 people who packed the first Delaware DNA Life Science Conference Thursday that he could draw a line directly from that day to drug company WuXi STA’s announcement last …
A flurry of federal and state emergency orders accompanied the appearance of COVID-19 in Delaware in March of 2020, sparking months of fear, worry, illness, financial pain and illness. Three years and two months later, Gov. John Carney will formally end his State of Delaware Public Health Emergency order at 6 p.m. today, May 11, on a glorious spring day …
The council of the Wilmington Learning Collaborative will ask the three participating districts to amend their memorandum of understanding to extend the council’s planning period. “We’ve got one shot at this,” said councilman Lincoln Hohler, who is Brandywine School District’s superintendent. “We can’t come back to the community with another failed initiative and say we want to reboot, we get …
The legalization of marijuana in Delaware will mean the state’s police agencies stop ticketing people for having it, but they’ll continue to pull people over for appearing to be under the influence. Police already had stopped charging people with criminal possession for small amounts of pot in 2019, when Attorney General Kathy Jennings said she would no longer prosecute for …
The way Delaware handles its budgets, a growing population and efforts to diversify the state economy all help the state continue to earn a AAA bond rating, which means the state pays less when it wants to borrow money. For example: The state received bids last week for its upcoming sale of $380 million of triple-A rated General Obligation Bonds …
Gov. John Carney said Friday that even though he disagrees with legalizing marijuana and creating a regulated and taxed industry, he will allow the two bills that do that to become law without his signature. “I want to be clear that my views on this issue have not changed,” he said in a Friday afternoon press release. “I understand there …
Avelo Airlines was supposed to start expanding its destinations from Wilmington Airport in a year or two, but instead, it nearly tripled its routes in less than 90 days of service. Local, state and airline officials held a press conference Thursday morning to announce that the airline is adding nine new nonstop destinations spanning five states: Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina, …
The state representative who has been pushing the legalization of marijuana for years sent out a press release Friday that broadly hints Gov. John Carney will allow that to happen without signing two bills that hit his desk this week. Both House Bill 1 and House Bill 2 passed the General Assembly in March. HB 1 would legalize the possession …
